COOK'S IRON WORKS

( Access from Biddick Lane & Washington Station )

COOK'S IRON WORKS  -  BURROWS Map 1952
Located just north of The Consett to Tyne Dock Railway Line
between Biddick Lane and Washington Railway Station.

Cook's Iron Works  &  Calders Timber Yard
Meridan Airmaps Limited  -  13 Sept 1964
[ Courtesy of Washington History Society. ]

Biddick Lane Railway Crossing & Signal Box
Road Left: to Fatfield Bridge.   Road Right: to Washington Village.
 
Trains on this Line transported Iron Ore from Tyne Dock to Consett Iron Works.
The above Train is returning empty Iron Ore Wagons to Tyne Dock.
 
This Railway Line later became part of the C2C (Coast to Coast) Cycle Track.
[ Photograph from well known Sunderland Photographer, Ian S. Carr ]

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SAMPLES OF MINING EQUIPMENT

Cook's Catalogue Cover Page, c1890.
[ Thanks to Stafford Linsley. ]

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MORE MINING EQUIPMENT

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COOK'S SHARE CERTIFICATE - 1926

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CAST IRON PLAQUE
From an Unknown Item manufactured at Washington Iron Works.
[ This Plaque was sold on-line in November 2018. ]

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